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04-03-2006, 05:22 AM
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Lines Of Dialog Given Classic Status By Great Performers...
Screenwriters put this stuff on paper and it's up to highly-paid actors to put it across in a way that makes it powerful, or hilarious, or at least memorable. One actor's inflections of a certain line of dialog, no matter how good the actor or the writing, might be flat and unpersuasive, while just the right person can take it into the stratosphere.
Example: "What a dump!" as spoken by Bette Davis in BEYOND THE FOREST, or her equally wonderful "Fasten your seat belts....it's going to be a bumpy night." from ALL ABOUT EVE.
Or any of a dozen lines spoken by Bogart in CASABLANCA.
Or Joe E. Brown's "Well...nobody's perfect" in SOME LIKE IT HOT.
But how about a few of the less famous examples of actors putting their spin on dialog so that it just sticks with you forever, even if the movie itself fades from memory.
My candidates to get things started (can you recall the scenes?):
Nigel Davenport's delivery of the line, "It had occurred to me" in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS.
William Holden's scalding comeback to Jack Hawkins in BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI: "They don't know it, but I do."
Jonathan Winter's delivery of the line, "This is a little girl's bike..." from IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD.
Please feel free to add some more!
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04-03-2006, 08:40 AM
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it's up to highly-paid actors to put it across in a way that makes it powerful
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Is this supposed to mean that an actor has to be "highly-paid" to be effective? Or that actors in general are "highly-paid"?
Neither one is true, BTW.
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04-03-2006, 09:08 AM
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"Do you know what happens when a Toad is struck by lighning!? The same thing that happens to everything else" - Storm (Halle Berry), Xmen.
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04-03-2006, 09:46 AM
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"Do you know what happens when a Toad is struck by lighning!? The same thing that happens to everything else" - Storm (Halle Berry), Xmen.
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Holadem, we think alike. I was just about to use that line.
Here are some other examples...
"Why did it have to be snakes?"- Harrison Ford in Raiders
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."- Marlon Brando in The Godfather
or my favorite...
"Kkkkkkhhhhhhaaaaaannnnnnn!!!"- William Shatner Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. 
Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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04-03-2006, 10:39 AM
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"Nooooooooooooooo Nooooooooooooo" Luke Skywalker, ESB. 
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04-03-2006, 10:48 AM
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"Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!!!" - Patton, George C. Scott as Patton
Everything from:
"Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis"
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"So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb." - Jaws, Robert Shaw as Quint
"Whatta ya got?" - The Wild One, Marlon Brando as Johnny, in response to "So what are your rebelling against, Johnny?"
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04-03-2006, 02:09 PM
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Cosmo Kramer(Michael Richards) In "The Alternate Side" from season Three of Seinfeld.
"These Pretzels are making me Thirsty..."
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04-03-2006, 03:36 PM
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"I'll be back."
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04-03-2006, 03:52 PM
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"Future events such as these will affect you in the future".
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04-03-2006, 04:31 PM
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